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title: "天目中峰廣錄 · 報恩懺院記"
description: "天目中峰廣錄是元代高僧中峰明本的著作集，收录其语录、诗文和书信等。中峰明本为临济宗著名禅师，师承高峰原妙，提倡禅净双修，影响深远。该书系统阐述禅宗思想，强调心性觉悟与净土信仰的结合，体现了元代佛教禅净融合的特点。作为临济宗重要文献，该书对后世禅宗发展有重要影响，是研究元代佛教思想与中峰明本禅学的重要资料，在佛教史上具有重要地位。"
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### 報恩懺院記

> Record of the Repayment of Kindness Repentance Hall

佛廬徧天下。其弘麗莫甚於蘇杭秀水之間。鶴沙距松江僅三舍地。接海壖民居既鮮。伽藍則未有也。自瞿氏徙居此地。世有積善慕義之風。逮今運使公霆發。及其從弟雲巖居士震發。慨然以為非伽藍無以營善而聞道。乃卜地得吉於先塋之側。傾金捐田命里僧某董之。不幾年而華池紺殿重門廣廡觀室講堂。凡伽藍所宜有者悉備焉。迎清淨行沙門十員。晝夜六時頂禮散華深味禪觀。幢旛象設華鯨清梵。宣流法音互為佛事。運使公喜其有成。亦施󷖑田若干畒。以報恩懺院為額。大德間　天子降璽書以護之。謁余文為記。余問何以謂之報恩。乃曰。恩莫大於君親。報莫越於聖道。聞西方聖人之禪觀。圓悟一心該攝萬行。推而廣之導物指迷莫不從化。以斯道報斯恩不亦善乎。余曰。秉一心為禪。照萬法為觀。其為心也圓湛虛寂涉入無礙。不可以相求。不可以言詣。舒之則萬法即之而彰。卷之則萬法依之而冺。無邊剎海十世古今。未有不由斯而著焉。凡夫迷昧。引起輪回遷謝苦樂昇沉莫之能釋。是故非禪那不足以契諸佛心。非妙觀不足以破眾生惑。圓覺以三觀互推為二十五輪。無量壽以一佛分觀於十六處。始則端坐靜室注想一方。存注不休與想俱冺。見法界中朗然明了。所以一輪見諦而妙觀澄明。一處功成則真佛圓具。如當臺鏡。如帝網珠。萬象顯而無所照之功。千光聚而絕能𭣣之跡。如是觀者。即見清淨願王白毫亘天紺目澄海。如優曇華。如紫金聚。巍巍堂堂殊特相好徧界光明化為香雲寶樹樓殿臺沼車服器玩諸莊嚴具。是時三昧行人即聞即見。即覺即知。一語一默一動一靜。皆與無作清淨妙觀脗然混合者矣。然後即斯妙觀。於一切時散作無邊莊嚴佛事。以之報國恩。則聖祚保無疆之永。以之報親恩則劬勞超有漏之纏。至若天龍鬼神過現未來冤親賢聖草木昆蟲。凡有纖恩。則於功德亦相須而無盡。噫公之志尚矣。遂掇筆直書以為記。

> Buddhist temples are found throughout the land, but none surpass in grandeur those among the beautiful waters of Suzhou and Hangzhou. Hesha is only three stages of travel from Songjiang. Near the seashore, few people live there, and no temple had ever existed. Since the Qu family moved to this place, generation after generation they maintained a spirit of accumulating goodness and honoring righteousness. Down to the present Transport Commissioner Gong Tingfa and his younger cousin, the lay Buddhist Yunya Jushi Zhenfa, they generously resolved that without a temple, there could be no way to cultivate goodness and hear the Dharma. So they divined for an auspicious site beside the family graves. They donated gold and fields, and appointed a local monk to oversee the work. Within a few years, ornate ponds, dark-blue halls, layered gates, broad corridors, meditation chambers, and lecture halls—everything a temple should have—were fully completed. Ten pure and virtuous monks were invited to bow in reverence and scatter flowers six times day and night, deeply savoring meditative contemplation. With banners and parasols, carved images and sacred whales, pure chanting of sutras, the sound of Dharma flowed forth, each activity serving the Buddha's work. The Transport Commissioner, delighted that it was accomplished, also donated a number of fields, and gave it the name "Repaying Kindness Repentance Temple." During the Dade era, the Emperor issued an imperial edict to protect it. They came to me requesting an inscription to record this. I asked why it was called "Repaying Kindness." They replied: "No kindness is greater than that of ruler and parents. No repayment surpasses the sacred path. We have heard of the meditation and contemplation of the Western Sage, which perfectly awakens the one mind and encompasses all practices. Extending this broadly to guide beings and point out delusion, all without exception are transformed. To repay such kindness with such a path—is this not excellent?" I said: "Holding the one mind is Chan; illuminating all phenomena is contemplation. This mind is perfect, still, empty, and quiescent, penetrating all without obstruction. It cannot be sought through appearances, nor reached through words. Unfold it, and all phenomena manifest through it. Roll it up, and all phenomena dissolve into it. Boundless realms and oceans, the ten ages and all time—nothing exists but what is revealed through this. Ordinary beings, deluded and confused, bring about the cycle of rebirth, passing away and changing, rising and sinking in suffering and pleasure, unable to free themselves. Therefore, without Chan meditation, one cannot merge with the minds of all Buddhas. Without wondrous contemplation, one cannot break through the delusions of sentient beings. The Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment presents three contemplations mutually revolving as twenty-five rounds. The Sutra of Infinite Life divides one Buddha into sixteen contemplations. At first, sit upright in a quiet room, focus your thoughts on one direction. Keep focusing without stopping, until focus and thought both vanish. Then within the Dharma realm, all appears bright and clear. Thus, when one round reveals the truth, wondrous contemplation becomes luminous. When one place is accomplished, the true Buddha is perfectly complete. Like a mirror on its stand, like Indra's net of jewels—all phenomena appear without any act of illuminating, a thousand lights gather yet no trace of their collection remains. One who contemplates thus sees the pure King of Vows, his white tuft of hair stretching across the sky, his dark-blue eyes clear as the sea. Like an udumbara flower, like a cluster of purple gold. Majestic and magnificent, his extraordinary marks and features radiate light throughout all realms, transforming into clouds of incense, jeweled trees, towers, halls, terraces, ponds, carriages, robes, vessels, and all adornments. At that moment, the practitioner of samadhi hears and sees, awakens and knows. Every word and every silence, every movement and every stillness, all blend perfectly with the effortless, pure, wondrous contemplation. Then, with this wondrous contemplation, at all times, one scatters boundless adorned Buddha-work. Using it to repay the nation's kindness, the sacred throne is protected in endless perpetuity. Using it to repay parents' kindness, their toil transcends the bonds of conditioned existence. And as for dragons, gods, ghosts, spirits, past, present, and future, enemies and kin, sages and ordinary beings, grasses, trees, insects—for even the slightest kindness, one's merit likewise becomes inexhaustible. Ah, the Commissioner's aspiration is truly noble. So I took up my brush and wrote this directly as a record.